I use a Logitech MX Revolution here. best mouse I've ever had. (the model now is the MX Performance. basically the same design with some tweaks) as to the navi's.. yup I have one as well.. don't use it since it's no where near as useful as my N52te Nostromo keypad..

I repaired/maintained a fouga magister. The irish airforce had 4 but now they're only used as ornaments. Pilots would say if they had to eject it meant death. Instant collision with stabiliser as you need to turn plane upside down and fall out.

Thanks Bob! It is always fun to get out and shoot. The star effect is in fact from the shutter, not a filter. That was something I was practicing that night, so I'm glad you noticed. Thanks for taking the time to look, Chris

Wow - thanks for posting that Dave! It's a great idea for an exercise!!!

Interesting. thanks for posting that.

Reminds me of the old days of rough timber structures, adobe, tipis, and attached greenhouses. Looks like Wales is having their 1970's now--FIRST eco-village? Good for him!

Google " Shi Jindian " and discover a great "real 3D mesh" Artist. Enjoy! http://www.artnet.com/artwork/426081136/beijing-jeep-no1.html [image: egd2_artwork-shijindian.jpg]

Thanks Bob. Not alone is it getting crowded down here its nearly as bad up there ..... somethings gotta give sooner or later!

@unknownuser said: Seems free or Open source are on the podium you can try the Genesis with the free DAZ not free daz. (there's a changes a comin' - there will be a free ds.. but you won't be able to do anything with it usefully. the current free version won't be free for much longer) also.. all you can do with genesis is pose it. if you want to make things for it.. $$$$. you have to buy the content creation tools. sorry to be a downer... but...

yes very informative and interesting Tomasz that clip is familiar to me . David Icke explains his theory in this clip regarding the two halfs of our brains. I hope you find it interesting too. cheers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKLLdAo2I0M&feature=related

Excellent work Mike.

Thanks for posting Hugo. What an ingenious invention! Then the designer finds a practical use for it. Mike

Hi Bob, I was reading about this a few weeks ago but was not aware of their site. Looks like it going to be a runner or should I say floater I have always thought that I would not mind taking a few days traveling to the USA and keeping my body clock some way synced. It could be an enjoyable flight in Summertime. Don't know about Wintertime with the bad weather over the Atlantic. However it looks like its first market is going to be the military. Didn't realise about the wasteful helium balloons! Then again we are misusing natural resources at a savage rate. Look at all the wasteful plastic packaging? Mike

@flapsyd said: I'm glad I never had to explain to people outside our country what B-H-V is/ was (!) all about because I probably wouldn't be able to (and I live in that area, so you can imagine) I can explain it, to some degree - at the cost of a severe headache. Thank God for Wikipedia! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde Anyhow, I am quite pleased they've come up with a solution. At least now they can address the real problems. You gotta give it to Di Rupo - he's one sly b*gger. Pun not intended.

@alan fraser said: And I absolutely loathe the practice of building modern estates of identical houses with windows, porches and conservatories which bear absolutely no relationship to the orientation of the house or the prevailing winds. You are so right Alan. Even driving around the countryside here, one will notice that many of the older country houses from small labour's cottages up to large country estate houses were orientated for maximum solar gain .... then along came the Planning Act in 1960 (or there abouts) and regimented constructions to have standard set backs parallel to the public road. Okay, its quite possible to design with these constraints but having the ability a 'skew' the house would make it a lot more efficient building

@Pete Windows is available to download and be installed from a 8GB stick. It's currently the Dev version but open to the public. Claims to boot in 8 secs.

Been playing around with this one for a while. Don't forget to download the different sound packs and add-ons.

Yes, it's quiet odd behavior! But, you can do it other way. First place dimensions by clicking, than use DIMSPACE command to auto adjust distance. First click base dimension, than select all U want to be adjusted to it.

I've made them with VirtualDub.

The good news are, two not calibrated monitors may give a general idea of how other users see your work I have a really calibrated monitor meaning, I can see sRGB profile as it should be. Most of all, I use a different profile when going for DTP, this last isn't a standard but looks very close to imagesetters-proofing prints.